Student's video pleas to get gig on 'Ellen' pays off

Otterbein University senior
Kahla Johnson wowed the staff at
The Ellen DeGeneres Show with her daily videos over five months and has landed an internship with
the diva of feel-good stories on daytime TV. Johnson, 22, of Germantown, near Dayton,
told family, friends and people who have been into her saga about the internship last night in her
147th video
log since June 1. In it, she references how all good things must come to an end.

"I'm so excited for her!" Otterbein spokeswoman Jenny Hill said.

Johnson began
the
videos as a way to give DeGeneres and her producers a personal view of her life and
the passion and commitment she would bring to the job if awarded an internship. Though
she only began with a few dedicated viewers, her cause quickly caught the attention
of thousands of fellow students, professors and others at Otterbein and throughout Ohio
who joined her efforts, by coming up with video ideas including whole song-and-dance
routines.